(|x⟩|y⟩−|y⟩|x⟩){\displaystyle (\left|x\right\rangle \left|y\right\rangle -\left|y\right\rangle \left|x\right\rangle )}... was my first lesson in quantum mechanics, and in a very real sense my last, since the rest is mere technique, which can be learnt from books.

The inner mysteries of quantum mechanics require a willingness to extend one’s mental processes into a strange world of phantom possibilities, endlessly branching into more and more abstruse chains of coupled logical networks, endlessly extending themselves forward and even backwards in time.

Ward was vocal in his denunciation of the trivia that filled up Senate agendas… suitably then, it was a close student associate of Ward’s, physics Ph. D. student Frank Duarte, who began to mobilize student opinion in favor of a change.

B. Mansfield and M. Hutchinson, Liberality of Opportunity: A History of Macquarie University 1964-1989 (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1992) p. 269

He has drawn attention to fundamental truths, and has laid down basics principles, which physicists have followed... often without knowing it, and generally without quoting him.

In the same style as Dirac, who wrote: “the interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things”, Ward was not interested on issues of interpretation... According to Shakarov, Ward was one of the “titans” of quantum electrodynamics alongside Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. Thus, his non interest on issues of interpretation should not be dismissed lightly.